- WYFR
Infobox Radio station
name = WYFR
city =Okeechobee, Florida
area =Worldwide
branding = Family Radio
frequency =
slogan =
airdate =October 20 ,1973
format =Christian radio daytime/Radio Taiwan International nighttime
owner = Family Stations Inc.Harold Camping , President
website = http://www.familyradio.com/
callsign_meaning = We're Your Family Radio |WYFR is a
shortwave radio station located inOkeechobee, Florida ,United States . The station is owned by Family Stations, Inc., as part of theFamily Radio network, and broadcasts traditionalChristian radio programming to international audiences.It began broadcasting on
October 20 ,1973 , after Family Stations acquired shortwave station WNYW located inScituate, Massachusetts , and changed itscall letters to WYFR, which stand for We're Your Family Radio. The station built new transmitters in Okeechobee in1977 , and closed the Scituate site in1979 .Before Family Radio's acquisition, the former station WNYW, which stood for Radio New York Worldwide, broadcast American news programs to Europe and Africa; however, there were rumors that the station was being partially controlled by the
Central Intelligence Agency to broadcastanti-communist propaganda . The current FoxTV station WNYW took thesecall letters over twelve years later, and has no affiliation with the shortwave station.The
interval signal of WYFR is a brass quintet playing the first eight bars of "To God Be the Glory".Radio Taiwan International
At night after 5 p.m./6 p.m. until sometime the next morning
Eastern Time (depending ondaylight saving time ), this station broadcastsRadio Taiwan International in English, Mandarin,Cantonese ,Hakka , and Spanish.This radio station currently broadcasts on shortwave at 5950, 6065, 6855, 6890, 6985, 7780, 9505, 9715, 11565, 11740, 11830, 11855, 13695, 15440, 17555, 17725, 17795, 18980 and 21455
kHz toNorth America . [ [http://worldwide.familyradio.org/zusa/international/schedules/englishsched.html English Short Wave Schedule ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.familyradio.com/ Family Radio]
* [http://worldwide.familyradio.org/zusa/international/schedules/englishsched.html WYFR English language schedule]
* [http://radiodx.com/spdxr/family_radio.htm The Family Radio Story]
* [http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/xwyfr27.txt FCC information for WYFR]
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